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Hunter Valley · Council & local affairs
617 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 31
A special meeting of the Borough Council was held last evening for the purpose of electing a Mayor for the current municipal year. The retiring Mayor (Mr. A. C. Robison) presided over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Henry McFadden, jun, who was elected Mayor of Singleton last night, is the well-known coach and buggy builder. Born in 1852, Mr. McFadden was brought up in the Hunter River…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mayor of West Maitland (Colonel Wilkinson), one of the retiring aldermen), gave a statement of the financial condition of the Borough at the nomination on Tuesday, which will prove interesting to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →To-DAY the ratepayers are called upon to elect three aldermen in the room of the three who retire through effluxion of time. Six candidates…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The polling for the annual municipal elections in East and West Maitland and Morpeth took place yesterday. Everything passed off very quietly everywhere. Though the polling was the heaviest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A more apathetic community in the matter of local government than that of Murrurundi it would be hard to discover, or in fact to dream of. The official announcement of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following nominations of candidates to fill the vacancies caused by the annual retirements in the West Maitland, East Maitland, Morpeth, Singleton, South Singleton, Dungog, Muswellbrook, Greta,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A meeting of the West Maitland Borough Council was held in the Council Chamber, Town Hall, a 5 o'clock last evening. The object of the meeting was to elect the Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—In your issue of the 7th instant, Mr. Leopold is reported to have said from the hustings:—"He (the speaker) did not waste the time of the Clerk, did net use the office to do private…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South Singleton municipal election was carried out quietly on Saturday last. The two retiring aldermen were successful. After the vote had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the Executive Council was held to-day, only formal business being transacted. A statement that a Cabinet meeting was to be held appears to have been erroneous, several Ministers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Punctually at noon yesterday, the Acting Returning-Officer (Alderman Lang) attended at the Council Chambers, School of Arts, and in the prasence of about a score of ratepayers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The returning officer made an official declaration of the poll at the Council Chambers at noon on Saturday last The voting was as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As briefly mentioned in last issue, the Municipal election here passed off very quietly on Friday; for all that, the poll was a fairly large one, 151…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the East Maitland Borough Council was held in the council Chamber, Mechanics' Institute, Bank-street, East Maitland, last night. The object of the meeting was to elect the Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A special meeting of the, Municipal Council, was hold in the Chambers, School of Arts, last night, for the purpose of electing the Mayor for the current year. There were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE polling for the election of throe aldermen to fill the vacancies in the local Council, caused by the retirement of Aldermen Budden, Luscombe, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last night, the Morpeth Council met for the purpose of electing a Mayor for the ensuing municipal year. Mr. Robert Sim, who had filled the position during the past year, occupied the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The election of Mayor to the municipality for the ensuing year took place at the Chambers on Monday evening, all the aldermen being present with the exception of Alderman McLauchlin, who had been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The election of aldermen took place at the Council Chambers on Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Returning Officer and other officials were early at their posts, but were not very much…
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